SUNYConnect "universal borrowing" is dead, long live SUNYConnect
expedited inter-library loan. Oh...oops...let's back up a few steps.

After extensive time and effort, the Ex Libris components for
SUNYConnect-wide circulation functions have been deemed unworkable.
The final decision on this was made by the SUNYConnect Advisory
Council.

Along with this development, there's been a pretty clear signal from
the SUNYConnect community to put the emphasis on inter-library loan
between SUNYConnect campuses rather than SUNYConnect circulation
per se. S.A.C. is now focusing on continued use of the SUNYConnectunion catalog with SFX's inter-library loan service then pointing
to a campus' preferred ILL process (via ILLiad, OCLC ILL, an
electronic form, etc.) as the method to facilitate library sharing
among SUNYConnect institutions.

Standards of performance for these transactions and other policy
decisions need to be established. Representatives from ILL staffs
at SUNYConnect institutions are meeting next month to discuss these
and related matters. These representatives will be asked to think
outside the campus "box" and to formulate standards to (finally)
allow for expedited library borrowing across and around all of
SUNYConnect.